!! Help & Advise Please !!

[admin_exported]

Hey people hopefully I can get some help from yourselves..I know this is posted in the Home Cinema section but it kinda is?

I've got an X-Box 360 Elite and also a PC. What im aiming to do is use the speakers from my computer for my PC and my 360 at the same time. The equipment im using is as follows-

X-Box 360 Elite

Panasonic TX 37LZD70

Creative Giga-Works 7.1

Creative Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Elite Pro

Any help will be much appeciated!!

Thanks

 

[VoodooDoctor]

Does the Xi-fi Pro have an Optical In port? Use that to get the sound to the speakers. Worked with my Xi-fi Fatality and the original Xbox. You do have to have the PC on though.

 

[Anonymous]

In regards to the soundcard, theres two parts - The internal card itsef and an external to plug in other bits and bobs but it does have a digital connection

http://img.hexus.net/v2/audio/creative/x-fi/card_bracket.jpg -- Thats a picture of the card for PC

http://img.hexus.net/v2/audio/creative/x-fi/external_front.jpg -- Front of the external soundcard console

http://img.hexus.net/v2/audio/creative/x-fi/external_back.jpg -- Back of the external soundcard console

The Elite is going to be using HDMI to connect to the TV

http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/news/images/xbox-360-elite/360elite%20062.jpg -- And with the Elite comes an included Cable

So seems to be a pretty straight forward thing to do? Connect Elite to TV using HDMI for HD visual. Connect the Xbox to Soundcard using digital sound and everything is sweet? Will there be any special settings i'll need to do? Im pretty noob at things like this.

Credit to hexus and llamma for the pix

 

[VoodooDoctor]

Yes, plug into the back of the external unit with an optical cable. Make sure that you turn off the Muting in the Volume control. As I recall, I had to fiddle with the Optical In settings in the Audio Control Panel to ensure that they synced up properly. It's relatively simple to do.